Category: Women Doing Amazing Things

Ten candidates clash over healthcare and immigration
Moderate Democrats attack the liberals Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls have clashed in a televised US debate that laid bare the party’s deep divisions over how…

Trump’s trial is hurtling towards a verdict. But are Americans paying attention?
Getty Images It had all the promise of an only-in-America blockbuster trial, brimming with salacious detail and a former president in the dock. In fact,…

Review found sexist treatment of women by WRU
Getty Images The WRU was told about unfavourable treatment of female rugby players in a 2021 review Concerns female rugby players in Wales may have…

TikTok influencer Aydan Al-Saad wants to break wage taboos
Aydan Al-Saad hits the streets of Cardiff to ask people how much they make Would you tell a stranger on the street how much you…

How tracking menstrual cycles helps women in sport
Getty Images In July 2019, the US women’s football team won the World Cup. Their success was, in part, attributed to having tracked each player’s…

Labour ‘creeping up’ in polls, says Ruth Davidson
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson admitted that Labour was “creeping up” to the Tories The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has defended Theresa May’s qualities…

Demand for women-only plumbing skills workshop
BBC Debs van Meeuwen-Jones teaches women in a garage in Fivehead A woman in Somerset who is offering to help others learn basic plumbing skills…
Saudi women turn to social media for the right to drive
Mohammad Al-Qahtani is the head of Saudi Arabia’s Civil and Political Rights Association. He accompanied his wife in the passenger seat on June 17 and…

Rachel Furness: Mental health forced Northern Ireland break
“I remember at a point before the Euros, I was thinking ‘can I continue to do this?’. I had no escape,” Furness tells BBC Sport…

Jamie Chadwick: Extreme E and W Series are brilliant, but I do miss the pub
Last year was an odd year for everyone – I still got to race, so there was a degree of normality in that sense… that…